Janet Jones: Tuesday, February 12

Janet Jones: I'm an artist living in San Francisco, on a wooded hillside overlooking the Farallon Islands. Redtail hawks soar overhead and sometimes perch outside the studio window, and raccoons, possums and skunks are nocturnal visitors. And this is in the middle of the city!

Why a blog?

I've been wanting a place to show work that doesn't easily fit into my website. Some pieces are experimental, or one-of-a-kind, or things I don't want to part with but would like to share. Some have back stories that are too long-winded or too frivolous for the website, but that I still like to tell. For the official story, visit the website: www.janetjonesfineart.com.

I also have been wanting a way to share news about artists and exhibits my readers may enjoy. I hope longtime followers will forgive me for keeping older and older posts, but they're favorites of mine that I enjoy revisiting.

LETTERPRESS, BREAKING ALL THE RULES

Letterpress printing has a long and distinguished history, and I have been privileged to know and observe many fine printers at their work. So it was with some trepidation that I undertook to improvise a way to do a series of works by letterpress printing on my etching press. I took a monoprinting approach to printing wood and metal type, working with layering and transparency, combined with the tactile quality inherent to letterpress printing. As in monoprinting, I wanted to take advantage of chance and happy accidents, and at the same time pay tribute to the innate beauty of the type itself. I printed the piece above on a page from an old Gaelic bible. The eye was printed digitally from a scanned image from a type specimen book.

Why a blog?

The one that got away

Unexpected treasure

The death of the printed word

LETTERPRESS, BREAKING ALL THE RULES

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